Kishida, Yoon agree to boost Japan-South Korea trade, security ties

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on March 16. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)

STEVEN BOROWIEC and KIM JAEWON, Nikkei staff writers

March 16, 2023 17:03 JST

Updated on March 16, 2023 20:23 JST

TOKYO -- The leaders of Japan and South Korea sought to put their countries' acrimonious past behind them in a Tokyo summit that brought pledges of economic and security cooperation between the neighbors.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, making the first bilateral visit to Japan by a South Korean leader since 2011, agreed to accelerate collaboration in the fields of economic security, advanced science and technologies, finance and foreign exchange.